FusePump are market leaders in the creation, management and distribution of high-quality product feeds. We manage product feed applications in a wide range of dynamic ecommerce partnerships and marketing environments. These include affiliate marketing, search, email, price comparison, display advertising and social media.

FusePump has experienced rapid growth and boasts a range of major customers including retail brands such as Argos, Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury’s. We are based in the UK but now operate internationally, with customers such as Buy.com and Macy’s in the US, and Viajes El Corte Ingles in Spain.

About the Role

Come and transform the ecommerce world one leap at a time. Be part of a small, agile team reporting to a Lead Developer; help us deliver customer-focussed projects and development of our new products.

We are innovative in solving technical problems for digital marketers in multi-channel ecommerce.

Utilising cutting-edge, exciting technologies like MongoDB, Amazon Web Services, HTML5 and CSS3, our global infrastructure is built on open-source server-side platforms from the LAMP stack to dynamic NoSQL-based distributed computing – with everything in between.

Key Responsibilities

• Create PHP web applications for customer and product development projects.
• Build data extraction tools and data feeds for a variety of customers.
• Turn user stories and business requirements into elegant, clean-coded solutions.
• Work closely with the business to deliver features in agile development teams.
• Problem solve, troubleshoot and suggest technical solutions.

Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science (or a related field) or relevant experience in lieu of this.
• Demonstrable OOP PHP 5 & MySQL commercial development experience.
• Comfortable with Linux command line.
• Understanding of coding best practices.
• Desire to learn and keep on learning.

Desirable Skills and Knowledge

• Experience in MVC frameworks, such as Zend Framework, CodeIgniter, CakePHP.
• Experience manipulating XML with PHP or with related technologies like XSLT, XPath and XML Schema.
• Familiarity with Bash scripting.
• Unit testing experience, such as PHPUnit.
• Some JavaScript framework (jQuery, Dojo, Mootools) experience, preferably OO.
• Past Linux experience, with distributions such as Ubuntu & CentOS.
• Past API/web services experience, such as REST or SOAP.
• Experience with MongoDb or similar NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge of Redis, Memcached or other key-value stores.
• Cloud architectures like Amazon Web Services or Rackspace for instance.
• Have worked constructively as part of an agile team.
• Past use of version control software like GIT or SVN.

Commercial experience is not a necessity and we are happy to consider recent graduates with degrees in relevant subjects. However, commercial, educational or personal experience is highly desirable.